On 09.08.2012 01:58, Tom Russell wrote:
For instance this code below:
soup =
BeautifulSoup(urlopen('http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3021-tradingdiary2.html?mod=mdc_pastcalendar'))
table = soup.find("table",{"class": "mdcTable"})
for row in table.findAll("tr"):
for cell in row.findAll("td"):
print cell.findAll(text=True)
brings in a list that looks like this:
[snip]
What I want to do is only be getting the data for NYSE and nothing
else so I do not know if that's possible or not. Also I want to do
something like:
If cell.contents[0] == "Advances":
Advances = next cell or whatever??---> this part I am not sure how to do.
Can someone help point me in the right direction to get the first data
point for the Advances row? I have others I will get as well but
figure once I understand how to do this I can do the rest.
To get the header row you could do something like:
header_row = table.find(lambda tag: tag.td.string == "NYSE")
From there you can look for the next row you are interested in:
advances_row = header_row.findNextSibling(lambda tag: tag.td.string ==
"Advances")
You could also iterate through all next siblings of the header_row:
for row in header_row.findNextSiblings("tr"):
# do something
Bye, Andreas
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